I was watching the movie “The Avengers” for the first time several weeks ago with some friends.  I am very movie illiterate and hadn’t seen hardly any of the super hero movies.  I was struck by one phrase in the movie – when the nemesis comes out before a massive crowd of people and commands them to bow to him.  He proclaims “YOU WERE MADE TO BOW!”  I have been thinking about that ever since and how each of us on this earth was made by our Creator to bow to Him alone!  Our purpose is to bow and to worship Him!  It is not to worship the created or…

I recently posted a blog on Cat and Dog Theology.  My cat lives out of a sense of entitlement, or having rights to things.  My dogs live more out of a place of gratitude, where all is gift.  In my life, do I live out of a place of gratitude or entitlement today? In today’s society it is so easy to feel entitled or to feel we have rights to things – to a good job, a family with a couple kids, 2 cars, a house.  You know, the American dream.   Maybe you feel entitled to a life of happiness without pain or suffering.  Tonight, I have been focusing on…

I have been meditating the last few days on the following verses: Romans 8:32: “Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?” John 15:16:   “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” Do I really believe God will give me all things?  As I began to meditate on these verses and reflect on when God has provided or not provided the things I asked for, I realized…